Quotes About Turmoil

Despair is anger with no place to go.

It had not occurred to me that it would get this bad, that indignity would dance upon bloodshed.

He believes the world has entered "an era of perpetual irregular warfare.

The luxury of youth banished in the face of turmoil.

Some people rioted for the sake of rioting.

And they're angry, and they're afraid, and then things happen.

What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.

It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.

Angst was for the dark.

There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.

Emotion has become a disease with you," said Platon. "You seek your own troubles, and make your own anxieties.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

In times of turmoil some people turn to magic, others to math.

Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune not to be nailed down.

Siyah çerçeveli ciddi bir ilân: bu kitap ne ciddi kavgalar?n, ne büyük ve yayg?n s?k?nt?lar?n, ne de ezilen insanlar?n roman?d?r; bu kitap, mustarip bir ruhun iç çeki?lerinin roman?d?r. Sizlere hizmetten ?eref duyan yay?nevimiz iftiharla sunar: Tutunamayanlar.

Midem yan?yor: içkiden kurtar?lacak ilk mide. Yang?ndan kurtar?lacak ilk mide. Benim midem. Benim kalbim.

It would be better even that a great people should be destroyed than that the whole race should be thrown into turmoil.

My eyes would swim in my head, and the whole world grow dark before me, so that I felt half out of my mind.

If we do not sacrifice the natural to the spiritual, the natural life will resist and defy the life of the Son of God in us and will produce continual turmoil. This is always the result of an undisciplined spiritual nature. We go wrong because we stubbornly refuse to discipline ourselves physically, morally, or mentally.

To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

Here shame dissuades him, there his fear prevails, And each by turns his aching heart assails.

[Chaos] A rough, unordered mass of things.

I wasn't exactly much fun to be around. Being with me was like falling into an abyss.